Other Costs of Dementia Care Searching Resources

The table below shows searches within key databases for scholarly published literature relevant to costs of dementia care. Where possible, links are provided containing pre-created searches to take you directly to database results.

Databases for scholarly information

Database

About

Suggested Search

Embase

Requires institutional subscription

Large online biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database.

Suggested search:

(Exp dementia/ OR dementia assessment/ OR Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale/ OR Clinical Dementia Rating/) AND (cost*.mp. or fee/ or economic*.sh.)

Canadian repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems.

Requires institutional subscription.
Large database, containing information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Suggested search:

TOPIC:(alzheimer* OR dementia*) AND TOPIC: (cost OR costs)

Can refine by RESEARCH AREAS: ( HEALTH CARE SCIENCES SERVICES ) for more specific search

The table below shows searches across producers of grey literature relevant to health economics, such as government agencies, research centres, health policy related organisations and health care provider organisations. Where possible, links are provided containing pre-created searches to take you directly to database results.

Learning More about Health Economics Information Resources

The National Library of Medicine (U.S.) provides a free online course on searching for Health Economics Information.

The Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi) Information Resources Group provides a free online resource ("vortal") including a section on how to search for Costs and economic evaluation information.